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Synopsis
The winner of the thirtieth annual International 3-Day Novel Contest. In 1968, an inconsequential civil servant finds himself swept into the mechanism of state oppression when the Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia. Put to work processing the arrest warrants of anyone who opposes the repressive regime, he falls quickly into the moral no-man’s-land of repressive bureaucracy.
As his humanity succumbs to the requirements of state doctrine, a series of chance encounters leads him to realize that in the world of men, there are no saints, no ideologies, no proclamations for a perfect salvation, only the fundamental choice: to act or not. A remarkable literary debut.
John Kupferschmidt’s inspiration for this novel came from his parents, who arrived in North America as political refugees from the former Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.
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About the Author
John Kupferschmidt takes his inspiration from the experience of his parents, who came to Canada as political refugees from the former Yugoslavia and the former Czechoslovakia. John studied International Development at McGill University, during which time he worked with Habitat for Humanity and traveled to West Africa to volunteer in a Liberian refugee camp. He lives in Ottawa.
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...it seems to me that the three-day gauntlet forces instinct to the fore; in the absence of conceptual and rewrite time, the writerly subconscious drives things on. Kupferschmidt's instincts have guided him flawlessly in this tough-minded and deeply moral look at the cost of being good in evil times.
—Jim Bartley of The Globe and Mail (Globe and Mail)
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- PublisherArsenal Pulp Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 155152239X
- ISBN 13 9781551522395
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages104
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